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I was 10 and my mom got me a white Oakland A's sweatshirt (not a hoodie but a sweatshirt) and she got Jose Canseco's name stitched on. The thought was cool, but she spelled "Canseco" as CONSECO. I never wore the thing.

submitted by Gabe

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My wife once got me as a Christmas gift "No Excuses: One Man's Incredible Rise Through the NFL to Head Coach of Notre Dame" by Charlie Weis.

My wife got me this before because it was a sports book. Well meaning, but a piece of shit. I didn't get through a third of it because I couldn't even take the man seriously.

I think it's being used to prop up my desk.

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I am a Twins fan and I asked for a Joe Mauer jersey a few years ago for Christmas. On Christmas morning, I opened the box and there it was – a #7 Twins jersey, just like I wanted. I took it out of the box and turned it around to check out the back. The name on the back read "MAWER". I turns out my mom ordered the jersey from an unlicensed website in China.

- Louis

My parents divorced when I was in my early teens. My mom soon got remarried and while my new stepdad tried to show an interest in me, he obviously was clueless. For example, I took up golf when I was 16. For Christmas that year, my stepdad got me a nice new driver. Unfortunately it was a right-handed driver and I'm left-handed. He probably should have known this because he took me golfing a few weeks before. This was slightly better than my 16th birthday when he got me a Saints jersey. The Saints are my favorite team. Good gift. Except the jersey was a women's-cut jersey.

- Bennett

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When I was in high school, my grandmother decided it would be a great idea to get me an Indiana University short-sleeve cheerleading sweater. It was also size XXL and went down past my knees. Not exactly an ideal gift for a 130-pound, 15 year-old boy. Or really any human. When I asked her why, she said, "because you love the Colts."

That same Christmas, Grandma got my fashionable sister a puffy BYU Cougars coat. My Grandma thought the 'Y' stood for Yale. No one in my family went to Yale. It was in the Goodwill dumpster a week later.

- Ryan

I'm a lifelong diehard Cubs fan and Louisville Cardinals fan. Three years ago, I was surprised to see that my older brother had not one, but two Christmas gifts for me under the tree. I opened the first one to find a UK (University of Kentucky) hooded sweatshirt. Surely, he is messing with me. Go to open the second one, a St. Louis Cardinals New Era hat. WTF.

Saddest part about all of this, it wasn't a joke. He thought I would like them. I returned the UK sweatshirt asap and re-gifted the same hat to him the next year. Needless to say, we would have our asses handed to us on Family Feud.

- Dustin

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By accident, my parents once gave me (a Buffalo Bills fan) a box with nothing inside of it for Christmas, forgetting to put a gift in. I laughed & sarcastically claimed, "I love it!"

Without missing a beat, my dad (a Giants fan) said, "We thought you would. It's a replica Jim Kelly Super Bowl ring." I stopped laughing.

- Andrew

For Christmas in 2006, all I wanted was a Brian Urlacher jersey to wear in case the Bears went to the Super Bowl in 2007. Instead, on Christmas morning, I unwrapped a men's XXL #30 Mike Brown jersey. I'm a girl. It was like a tent on me. But since my parents couldn't find any jerseys in my size, let alone an Urlacher one, they bought the M.Brown jersey and got me matching orange leggings so I could wear it as a dress.

- Jami